Re: Old story, a postscript

[Antone Roundy <antone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You could jump off the deep end and include one of a million reasons
> (missing this, invalid data in that field, elements in wrong order...) 
> This
> kind of exact error tracking and reporting although possible over
> complicates things. All you need to do is inform the producer that 
> something
> is wrong with their atom feed. So that they can validate find the 
> error and
> fix it.
Hmm.  Good point.  But I can think of one reason you might want the 
client to tell you what it thinks is wrong.  Let's say your feed 
validates fine, but one day you discover that 50,000 NetNewsWire users 
have reported (incorrectly) that it contains an error.  You might want 
to adjust your feed to deal with that.  If you have the client that 
reported the error installed on your computer, and it tells the user 
(you) what it thought was a problem, then you don't need it to report 
the error to your server.  But otherwise, it might be useful to have 
the client report what it thinks the error is.